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Ironbridge market report TF8, Telford
The TF8 (Ironbridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,040 HM Land Registry entries for TF8 (Telford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 8 October 2026.
In short: a typical TF8 (Telford) home changed hands for £368,800 in 2026 (median of 16 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier), with the mean at £397,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,040 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district TF8 covering Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale, Coalport sits in Telford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where TF8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
TF8 sold prices: where the market stands
16 sales were registered in TF8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £368,800. The mean works out at £397,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in TF8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of TF8 sales average about £3,260 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TF8 sits 29% above the national market.
TF8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £368,800 | £368,800 | 16 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 87 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 51 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 55 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 67 |
| 2021 | £280,100 | £354,643 | 94 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 100 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 92 |
| 2018 | £248,000 | £330,589 | 61 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 77 |
| 2016 | £222,200 | £310,860 | 52 |
| 2015 | £193,000 | £272,709 | 61 |
| 2014 | £176,500 | £250,396 | 47 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 47 |
| 2012 | £197,800 | £291,137 | 48 |
| 2011 | £236,500 | £357,024 | 34 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 43 |
| 2009 | £184,000 | £295,782 | 39 |
| 2008 | £208,500 | £341,776 | 34 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 77 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 81 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 51 |
| 2004 | £193,000 | £350,526 | 69 |
| 2003 | £156,000 | £287,390 | 82 |
| 2002 | £123,200 | £231,800 | 96 |
| 2001 | £83,500 | £160,524 | 86 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 61 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 89 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 81 |
| 1997 | £66,400 | £136,173 | 60 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 63 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical TF8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £368,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the TF8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+47.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−19.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +34.1% | +31.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.7% | +0.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +7.8% | +3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £392,500 against £141,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, TF8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £420,000 | 7 | 729 |
| Semi-detached | £250,000 | 5 | 514 |
| Terraced | £225,000 (2025) | – | 594 |
| Flats | £141,500 (2025) | – | 175 |
Sales activity in TF8
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in TF8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 75 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How TF8 trades
This is a thin market: 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 13 measurable districts of its area, TF8 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around TF8
For renting purposes TF8 sits in Telford and Wrekin. The ONS average private rent there is £856 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £596 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,351 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Telford and Wrekin
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £368,800 median sold price, £856 a month is £10,272 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on TF8 (Ironbridge)
How much did a house sell for in TF8 (Ironbridge)?
Are property prices falling in TF8 (Ironbridge)?
Is TF8 (Ironbridge) a good place to buy a house?
Where do TF8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in TF8 right now
Everything above is what homes in TF8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 14 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the TF8 median sold price.
TF8 registered 37 sales in the last twelve months; the 14 homes listed now would take about 5 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every TF8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
When homes in TF8 change hands
June is when TF8 changes hands most (12.1% of the 354 sales dated 2021 to 2025); November is the quiet end at 4.8%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 28 | 7.9% |
| February | 37 | 10.5% |
| March | 38 | 10.7% |
| April | 24 | 6.8% |
| May | 35 | 9.9% |
| June | 43 | 12.1% |
| July | 25 | 7.1% |
| August | 35 | 9.9% |
| September | 29 | 8.2% |
| October | 19 | 5.4% |
| November | 17 | 4.8% |
| December | 24 | 6.8% |
Bedroom by bedroom: TF prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the TF area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £222,250 | £244,000 (+10%) | £289,950 (+19%) | £365,000 (+26%) | £486,995 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £155,000 | £187,000 (+21%) | £220,000 (+18%) | £260,000 (+18%) | £340,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £170,000 (+31%) | £165,000 (-3%) | £225,000 (+36%) | £250,000 (+11%) |
| Flat | £85,500 | £120,000 (+40%) | £134,950 (+12%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
TF8 ranks 1 of 13 in the TF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, TF area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TF8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TF8 7 | £368,800 | 16 |
How TF8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TF13 | £384,000 | +18% |
| TF8 (this report) | £368,800 | +32% |
| TF5 | £325,000 | +12% |
| TF6 | £296,200 | +8% |
| TF11 | £290,000 | +10% |
| TF9 | £270,000 | +4% |
| TF10 | £257,000 | -1% |
| TF12 | £247,000 | +12% |
| TF4 | £233,000 | +11% |
| TF1 | £210,000 | +4% |
| TF2 | £210,000 | +9% |
| TF3 | £195,500 | +0% |
| TF7 | £175,000 | +30% |
Selling in TF8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TF8, open the average prices map and zoom from the TF8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TF8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual TF8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.